So, inflating your tires properly is about quadruple the savings that offshore drilling would net us. That means the core of McCain’s energy plan is so ridiculous that inflating your tires dwarfs its impact.
It’s ok though, McCain has a substantive ad featuring Britney Spears and Paris Hilton.
In other news, offshore drilling has a ton [...]

I’m happy with the D.C. gun ban ruling. Gun control is constitutional, but outright bans are not. Sounds right to me.
The death penalty case is more interesting. I don’t support the death penalty as a practical matter - our justice system isn’t perfect and you can’t take back killing someone. Morally, I don’t know. I [...]

Indian school names monkey god chairman
LUCKNOW, India (AP) — He’s a revered Hindu monkey god. And now, he’s the chairman of an Indian business school.
Hanuman, the popular god known for his strength and valor, has been named official chairman of the recently opened Sardar Bhagat Singh College of Technology and Management in northern India, [...]

As I said a couple posts ago, I’m nothing if not current. I find it curious how often global warming deniers equate belief in human caused climate change with faith. This post from one of Montana’s newer conservative blogs (and so far, what appears to be one of our better ones) is a good example. [...]

Mark’s been commenting a lot on New Hampshire’s primary and resulting oddities with Diebold voting machines. I’ve been too busy to pay that much attention, but it’s pretty clear there’s a difference in voting patterns correlated with the county using or not using Diebold machines, despite widely varying numbers on that score. The recount is [...]

Craig sort of has a point on number two, there. The subject is Franklin’s liberty and safety quote. Economic freedom for economic safety is just such a trade-off and liberals don’t have a problem with that. I’ve seen the point made before and it has the benefit of being strictly true.
Of course, Franklin’s quote, taken [...]

Today in 1933 prohibition ended. Granted, I drink very rarely, but it’s the principle of the thing.
Here’s to our current round of prohibition ending in the near future.

We’re now supposed to change our definition of privacy. Nice. No longer does it mean, you know, things being kept private, but that the government gets whatever it wants and promises not to do bad things with it.
I suppose if you haven’t done anything wrong, you have nothing to hide. Until they decide you are [...]

Do we really need this? It’s a strange issue that’s resurfaced lately. As far as I know, no reputable historian believes the Ottoman empire didn’t commit genocide against the Armenians. Seeing as it has no bearing on current events and will antagonize an ally we’ll probably need in the future (unless the government is taken [...]

Remember when I wrote a post a while back bemoaning the state of the popular debate about climate change? Yeah, this is what I mean.
If you’re curious about the debate, SciAm has a post about it here. Again, we have a debate about science, but instead of reasoned arguments, there are gotchas. We all know [...]